Quotes About Motherhood

Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.

When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.

Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.

I owe the baby my life. I owe this baby everything and I have a responsibility now.

Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.

She was really strong around me. Having me at 16 had to have been a big responsibility. My mom gave up everything for me, had three jobs, supported me, sacrificed her life for me.

Now I just feel like I'm more open to life. I have two children.

I feel, you know, empowered because I gave life. I have a son now. I feel like I'm stronger.

...I can't possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody's business and I'll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life.

No other formula gives your baby a better start in life except that stuff that comes out of you for free.

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.

I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity.

The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.

My children are my whole life.

My mom was an enthusiastic, positive, glass-is-half-full type of person and that is how I live my life and I owe that to her. She was an amazing woman.

The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.

There are mothers that feel they made a mistake by having a kid at a very young age and they didn't get to live their life.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Cassandra sighed and shook her head at his total lack of concern. "You're obviously not a mother," she said. Horace raised his eyebrows. "Thank goodness for that.

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

You are a midwife, assisting at someone else's birth. Do good without show or fuss. Facilitate what is happening rather than what you think ought to be happening. If you must take the lead, lead so that the mother is helped, yet still free and in charge. When the baby is born, the mother will rightly say, "We did it ourselves!